Open AccessArun Agrawal. Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 219 pages. Price not given.
Author(s) -
Faisal Bari
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v39i2pp.175-177
Subject(s) - politics , face (sociological concept) , sociology , work (physics) , political science , media studies , political economy , social science , law , engineering , mechanical engineering
Most literature on political economy, both in Economics andPolitical Science, has tended to ignore migrant communities. But thesecommunities pose interesting questions for academics. Migrantcommunities tend to face hostile environments in which they have tosurvive. Not only do governments “encourage” them to settle down, theyalso get marginalised in the politics of the regions in which they tendto move (or “settle down”). Arun Agrawal addresses some of theseinteresting questions in his book. Arun Agrawal is Assistant Professorof Political Science at Yale University. This work, which started in1989 and then formed a part of his doctoral dissertation at DukeUniversity, has taken a decade to come out as a book. Some parts of ithave also appeared earlier as journal articles.